Apple A12 Bionic vs Apple M3 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Apple A12 Bionic (45/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A12 Bionic
Apple

Apple A12 Bionic

45/100
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[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 45.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 43.0 Poor 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 8 FPS 20 FPS
Stability 65% 70%
Section 1 — 52 FPS
Section 2 — 38 FPS
Section 3 — 28 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance — 18 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 309104 782907
GPU 144993 1029236
Memory 139578 305749
Total score 895627 2777287
UX 301952 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.49 GHz – Vortex4x 1.6 GHz – Tempest 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 2490 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 128 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 7 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W 20 W
Transistor count 6.9 billion 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 18 —
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Download speed Up to 1000 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Modem Intel XMM 7560 —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 350 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 116.8 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 11.2 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 0.39 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 19.2 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.12 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.73 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 98.7 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 59.4 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.26 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 23.7 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 71.7 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 608.2 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 36.1 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.49 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 5 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 24.1 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 576 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1125 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 4 9
Shading units 64 128
Total shaders 256 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2018 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W81 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AAC‑LC- AAX and AAX+- Apple Lossless- HE‑AAC- HE‑AAC v2- Linear PCM- MP3 - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP 1x 48MP
Max display resolution 2688 x 1242 2732 x 2048
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-17(Hoangg Anhh) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-22(Jai) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-02(sp_ayz1) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-05(Jarukit) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-12->Giahuy AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-27->USAball386 GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-31(Димa) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-09-28->will09 — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-01-26(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-03(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-21(Noora) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-22(Noora) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-08(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-12(Kaimen) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-17(Jacob) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A12 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone XS Max 842172 —
2.Apple iPhone XR 762903 —
3.Apple iPhone XS 756483 —
Phones with A12 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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